War Strategies

CORAL SEA/MIDWAY May and June of 1942 Stopped the Japanese advance West

and began the American push back toward the mainland

Four carriers and 300 planes destroyed

CORAL SEA/MIDWAY• May and June of 1942• Stopped the Japanese advance West and

began the American push back toward the mainland

• Four carriers and 300 planes destroyed

MIDWAY

ISLAND HOPPING

Developed by Admiral Chester Nimitz

Allowed U.S. to bypass heavily fortified islands to those closer to Japan.

Essentially worked to cut off supply lines to those islands held by Japanese

LEYTE GULF One of the largest naval battles of all

time Introduced kamikaze pilots

IWO JIMA

OKINAWA Kamikazes

inflict major damage

50,000 American casualties and 100,000 Japanese killed

U.S. can reach mainland Japan

ATOMIC BOMB Dropped on

Hiroshima August 6 & Nagasaki August 9 1945

Unconditional, formal surrender September 2, 1945

ATLANTIC THEATER

BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC Convey system

used to protect allied ships from U-boats

NORTHERN AFRICA/ITALY Battle for Northern Africa begins in

1942 led by Eisenhower and Montgomery.

Germans driven off Africa and retreat to Italy by May of 1943

Mussolini falls from power in 1943 and allies invade Italy in September of 1943 and stay there fighting until end of war May 1945

D-DAY June 6, 1944 Largest invasion by sea in history British Canadian, and French forces all

contribute Paris falls by August By September German border crossed Battle of Bulge was last German

offensive War ends with invasion of Berlin by

the Soviets from the East and Americans from the West

Holocaust Rumors persisted since 1942 with the

final solution actually decided in late 1941

Pictures of camp 6 million jews killed 12-13 million total